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it? no? >> i'm not even going to say anything. >> cheryl: all right. leave it there. safety move. that's it for the cost of freedom. thank you for being here. thank you for being here. have a great weekend. captioned by closed captioning services, inc arizona's tough immigration law is causing outrage and protest. supporters insist it's a tool needed to fight crime in border communities. a critic says it launches the state in a spiral of pervasive fear. community distrust, increase crime and cost of litigation. we'll have a live report from arizona and we'll let you decide. two out of three navy seals are cleared after being accused of beating up the man thought responsible for killing four american contractors in iraq. what is going to happen to the third? and the s.e.c. missed bernie madoff's gigantic ponzi schemes. might it have had something to do with the fact that senior staffers were looking at porn on the government computers? details to get you fired up straight ahead. i'm brian wilson. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now.
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>> brian: all eyes are now on arizona. the state is home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. as soon as arizona governor jan brewer signed the country's toughest law on illegal immigration yesterday, the protest and threats of lawsuits broke out. casey stegall is live in phoenix with more on the fall-out from the new state law. hello, casey. >> reporter: hello, brian. this is no doubt the toughest immigration reform bill on the books now in the country. it's hard telling how long it will last considering the court battles are already brewing to fight it. arizona governor jan brewer signed senate bill 1070 in effect yesterday as things got heated between hundreds and hundreds of protesters out on the lawn of the capitol in phoenix. opponents concerned it will
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lead to widespread racial profiling, especially among hispanics. since the new law allows police to question a person's immigration status conducting everyday police work. even requesting to see documentation paperwork of all suspects. president obama, himself, calling this measure "misguided." >> our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. that includes, for example, the recent efforts in arizona, which threaten to undermine basic notion of fairness we cherish as americans. as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe. >> reporter: now governor brewer says to prevent racial profiling she is ordering the arizona police training agency to create new guidelines for teaching officers how to properly and legally enforce this law.
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brewer also believes she was forced to do something drastic like this, because she says she doesn't feel the federal government has done enough in terms of securing the southern border in her state, where a wealth of drugs and humans are smuggled into the united states every single day. >> we cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. we cannot stand idly ball as drop houses, kidnapping and violence compromise the quality of life. >> reporter: the new law goes into effect about 90 days after the legislative session ends here in arizona. which will be early to late summer. that is if all of the lawsuits, the appeals and the public outcry don't stop it first, brian. we're just going to have to wait and see on this. it's very controversial, indeed. >> brian: casey stegall reporting live from arizona. okay, you heard both sides. here at fox we want to know what you think so we are asking you on our website, will arizona's new
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immigration law help or harm? log on to foxnews.com to cast your vote and what we want to tell you up front is admittedly unscientific poll. the coast guard called an end to the search for 11 workers missing since an oil rig blew up off of louisiana's coast on tuesday. 100 people made it off the deep water horizon oil rig safely. 17 others were hurt. the coast guard says it will resume the search if any ships in the area see anythin anything. extreme weather warning is in effect for much of the southern u.s. as tornado season ramps up in mississippi and louisiana. meteorologist domenica davis is at the fox weather center with more. what is the latest? >> well, the latest is, we're already looking at the tornadoes firing up. we've had four reports of touchdowns just this morning through the eastern part of mississippi. this is going to push off to the east. what we are looking at today
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is a particularly dangerous situation in terms of severe weather. this is just the beginning of it. several tornado watch boxes are up. we do have those warnings in effect. several of them right now through tennessee, alabama, mississippi, that is likely where we will see it stay right into the afternoon. so here is a look at the radar. these clouds are moving quickly. off to the east, about 30 miles per hour. so these are fast-moving, dangerous cells that are carrying the potential for some tornadoes, very large hail. i have seen a lot of report, brian, of hail coming in, golf-ball sized hail and the winds even where we don't have tornadoes and the thunderstorms are over 60 miles per hour. so this system continues right through the evening, along and ahead of the cold front. back to you. >> brian: all right, i'll tell you. i have seen golf-ball sized hail firsthand. it gets your attention, believe me. >> very dangerous. >> brian: thanks a lot. in other news, a cross-country delta flight finally landed in tampa after
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a passenger threatened to blow up the airplane. the flight was diverted to albuquerque, new mexico, where the suspect, 46-year-old stanley duane sheffield was taken into custody. former major league baseball manager kevin kennedy says he was on the flight and was one of the eight passengers who helped to subdue the man. authorities do not believe, however, this was a case of terrorism. well, the s.e.c. is supposed to be the watchdog of the financial industry. but now there is evidence that some workers were busy looking at something other than spreadsheets on their computers. nicole collins explains what a probe has revealed. >> reporter: brian, that internal s.e.c. investigation revealed some staffers were watching porn instead of watching wall street all on government-issued computers and on the taxpayer dime. 31 employees were found to be doing this during the past two-and-a-half years as the economy teetered on the brink of collapse and thousands were swindled by ponzi artist, madoff and stanford.
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details received from the s.e.c. inspector david cox who spoke to our neil cavuto. here is what he said. >> some of the more senior officials, enforcement officials involved in cases, cases that should have been brough brought, cases that should have been worked on instead of having folks sitting several hours a day looking at pornography. the concern we had was not with the number, which was only 31, 33 individuals. by with the severity of the instances and the egregiousness of the instances. >> reporter: 17 of the s.e.c. staffer, in fact, were senior level, making six-figure salaries. we now know one woman was involved. one of the more brazen cases involved a senior attorney in the s.e.c. d.c. headquarters who spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. when he ran out of hard drive space, he burned files to dvds and kept them in boxes around the office. that man has since resigned. in another instance, an accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month
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from visiting websites classified as sex or pornography. he didn't let that stop him. he bypassed the s.e.c. internal filter using google images. he received a 14-day suspension. t t the tawdry details come at a bad time. public officials announced investigation against goldman sachs with critics calling for investigation whether politics drove the s.e.c. decision to sue the company for fraud. >> brian: i'm surprised by this, because so many systems have filters that catch this stuff. i'm surprised they didn't have more at the s.e.c. >> all of these were caught by the internal filters at the s.e.c. and immediately referred to the inspector general. so the s.e.c. -- >> brian: it's just now we're beginning to hear about it. thank you, nicole. good work. the tea party political movement has gotten a lot of attention lately. our news fox news opinion dynamics poll shed light on what americans think of it. one of six people we polled,
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17% said they consider themselves a part of the tea party movement. 56% of those people said the tea party should be taken seriously. as a political movement, as opposed to 27% who saw it as a fringe group and 11% who they just weren't sure. our next guest has been pretty clear on his thoughts on this topic. pennsylvania governor ed rendell says the movement has been blown out by proportion by the media and suggests democrats may have had a hand in all of this. the governor, also a former chairman of the democratic national committee joins me from philadelphia. governor, you're a good friend of this program and we are happy to have you back. right here on america's news headquarters. >> thanks, brian. let me just start off by saying the tea party people have a right to protest. they have a right to express their views. and to a great extent, they're reflikting t ing refle a lot of americans feel about losing their homes, losing their jobs and losing their 401(k). the mainstream media -- i'm
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not blaming the conservative media. the mainstream media has fallen for this hook, line and sinker. the two big rallies the tea party had in washington, d.c., one the week before the healthcare bill was voted on, they got 1,000 people to show up for that rally. the tax day rally had less than a couple of thousand people. if i organized a rally to have stronger laws to protect puppies, i would get 100,000 people in washington without breaking a sweat. there is just no clout behind this movement. it reflects what people feel, but the actual movement, itself, has no infrastructure, has no ability to bring a lot of people to key sites at key moments in time. >> brian: i get your point. but you sort of hit upon it. isn't this the, maybe the numbers of people who show up are reflective of people who share that passion. i mean, after all, our polls show that a pretty significant number of people out there identify with what the tea party movement is all about. >> well, they identify with the anger. i don't think they identify with the movement. i don't think the tea party
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has been very successful in fielding their own candidates. we'll see in the few instances they have. i don't think they have been very successful getting signatures on petitions. we'll see as we go through. i think the anger is real. there is no question about that. you saw that in numerous elections and you see that in polls like the ones you refer to, brian. the anger is real. i am just saying to give the tea partyites the credit for being the ones who have brought this to the fore is misguided. if you look at the numbers and those are pathetic. do you know how many people were on the wall protesting the iraq war? >> brian: i'm going to ask you about a statistic i saw that said some 18% -- that is a fifth largely of the tea party movement roughly -- identify themselves as democrats. >> sure! there are democrats who are angered by what has gone on and they think the government should have done a better job watching wall street. they think that fannie mae
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and freddie mac should have done more. of course, there is legitimate anger out there. that anger exists. and tea party is representative of slice of that anger. but to say that this is a political movement, it's -- it doesn't comport with the facts and the reality. >> brian: all right. governor rendell, it's always good to have you here. >> thanks, brian. i enjoy being on fox. fair and balanced. >> brian: you can always count on us. thank you, governor. good to see you. congressman mark kirk the republican candidate for senate in illinois is going after his democratic opponent, state treasurer alexi giannoulias, after u.s. regulators closed a family-owned bank of the giannoulias family yesterday. kirk made the bank's financial troubles a central theme in the senate race. giannoulias maintains the bank was financially secure when he left his job there four years ago to become the state treasurer. blanche lincoln, a key senate vote on the healthcare bill is facing a tough challenge in her bid to win re-election in november.
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james rosen is live in little rock, arkansas, where the candidates debated last night. hello, james. >> reporter: good afternoon. it wasn't lincoln-douglas, but the lincoln-halter debate proved more civil and substantive affair than the race, itself, has been to date with the negative attack ads on tv and spending by the outside groups. still, senator lincoln main challenger, bill halter, albeit in a polite way went on the attack against lincoln early and often last night, portraying the two-term senator as flip-flopper on the so-called public option in heal healthcare reform and unprincipled for her receipt of campaign contribution from goldman sachs. for her part, lincoln kept her focus on the audience, touting the accomplishment on the agriculture committee but pausing once to cap halter as a flip-flopper on the security chief. >> i asked senator lincoln to give back the contribution that goldman sachs made to her campaign.
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because they are currently under s.e.c. investigation for fraud. i just think it's unseemly to be simultaneously raising money from the folks that you are supposed to regulate; particularly, when the folks wrecked our economy. >> i know that i have consistently opposed attempts to privatize social security. i know bill has mentioned in speeches elsewhere, though, that he does believe that there is an opportunity possible to be able to invest social security money in wall street. we know what would have happened had we done that. >> reporter: the third candidate on the stage physically towered over the, two little known businessman, d.c. morris. he drew the biggest laugh of the evening when he said personally he has been enjoying the negative ads. if he had the money he'd run them, too. >> brian: all right, james rosen in little rock, arkansas, where we were sad by the way to learn doze, the legendary restaurant in little rock is closed.
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>> reporter: yes, that was bill clinton's personal favorite. it prompted the producer jake gibson, son of john gibson, in little rock, instead of ordering chicken fried steak or ribs to order sussushi. >> brian: that's just wrong. thanks a lot. still ahead, sarah palin tells greta van susteren what it was like to have her e-mail hacked and then face her hacker in court. stunning views courtesy of the sun and nasa. our science guy tell us what the images mean for scientists and we talk about the future of nasa. i saw him the other day in florida. we'll catch up in a moment. stay with us.
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>> brian: this is a fox news alert. you are looking at the radar loop across the southern belly of our nation. there have been a whole series of national tornado warnings that went up for the national weather service for counties alone in mississippi, including jackson, benson and clark. some parts of northeast louisiana. and even parts of alabama now under some tornado warnings. some of the tornadoes, some of the storms have a lot of strength and are very concerning to folks, so if you live in that part of the
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world, check in on your local weather to find out what is going on. stay closely aware of what is going on around you as they have serious storms in that area. former alaska governor sarah palin was in tennessee yesterday where she testified against 22-year-old david kernell in a federal courtroom, who was a university of tennessee student in 2008, when prosecutors say he hacked into palin's personal e-mail account, while she was a g.o.p. candidate for vice president. the form governor went on the record with greta van susteren last night, where she talked about how the hack not only impacted her but imp who had ever sent her a personal e-mail. >> this was the equivalent of somebody going into your home and rummaging through your letters or your mail in your mailbox, opening everything up, staepi i stealing it and ex it to the rest of the world. absolutely a violation. a violation in terms of those who also were trusting of me to hold on to their personal
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e-mails with confidence. i felt bad for the other victims in this. >> brian: if convicted on all charges, he could face up to 50 years in prison. he said this was just a prank but he could end up in prison for 50 years. he pleaded not guilty to all charges. richard branson thinks europe overreacted to the volcanic ash cloud when the flights were grounded for a week. he said he is sure the planes could have flown without danger and his airline lost more than $75 million. he says the u.k. has now accepted that there was an overreaction, and called for airlines to be compensated for their losses. from the imagination of hollywood film writers to the real-life actions of the obama administration, nasa sets its sight for aster road landing -- asteroid landing.
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>> by 2025, we expect new spacecraft to allow us to begin first ever crude mission beyond the moon in deep space. we will start sending the astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. >> brian: asteroid with date estimated for 2025. this could be the first step for mission to the moons of mars, eventually on to mars and perhaps have ramifications on this planet as well. we have bill ny, the science guy, who was at the event. i was there as well covering it for the fox news channel. good to see you there. you were very excited about the things that the president had to say. you think that he has set a clear course for the future. do you not? >> yeah. we're going to get, i mean, use nasa, national aeronautics and space administration to go beyond low-earth orbit to deep space. and i'm not sure we'll get to
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an asteroid by 2025, but we will get to deep space, which might be one of the gravity balance points called the legrange points, but this would be very exciting. very exciting. >> brian: bill, a lot of people look at what happened and including i'm talking prominent names in the space game -- chief among them neil armstrong, the first man to stand on the moon. they say we're not sure this is the right plan. they were disappointed that the constellation program was canceled. what say you to that? >> well, the constellation program was not going to get back to the -- constellation, everybody, was a program that included the aries rocket, one and five and included orion space capsule which would hold up to seven people. that constellation program was not going to get us back to the moon before 2020. we've been to the moon 40 years ago. it was>> manager manag mismanagy from people or budgets
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weren't working and the designs weren't coming out right, so the obama administration decided at last to cut it loose and start over. i remind everybody that canceling of the shuttle program was decided six years ago in the bush administration. >> brian: true. >> that was already on track. the trouble has been the last couple weeks in the states where it's manufacturered. all the money spent in space is really spent on earth. the people coming from the places are concerned about it and i remind you if you are a ceo of a corporation that controlled $19 billion, which is the nasa budget. >> brian: right. >> half of a percent of the u.s u.s., the united states government budget. if you controlled $19 billion and you wanted to move 2,000 jobs around, you could just do that. you could say okay, we're going to close 2,000 jobs over here and open 2,000 or 2,500 jobs over there.
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you would just do it. but in the government it doesn't work that way because everybody has congress and senators representing them, special interest group and we have a conflict. right way to go. new exciting places. >> brian: i appreciate it. i gave you a lot of time there. very briefly, there is exciting visuals that came out about the sun. tell me about these quickly. >> oh, well, these are high-definition photos of a solar of a corona, of a big solar storm on the surface of the sun. the significance of this is we have so much electronics, so many electronics now running so much of our world. all of our financial friends, act friends, -- financial transaction is done electronic, talking on television which is electronic, the storms with the protons and the other highly charged particles shoot toward us from the sun and they the disrupt our communication.
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serious business. keep an eye on solar weather but the pictures are spectacular. >> brian: they are really school. >> if my father saw these, he would have been astonished. >> brian: we have to leave it there. thank you. if you want the see cool pictures, go to the nasa website and look at the 20-year anniversary pictures of the hubble space telescope. amazing. thank you, bill. got to go. two of three navy seals facing court-martials in iraq have been cleared of wrongdoing, but what does the future hold for the third? update on that case when we come back. thanks to the new venture card from capital one,
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>> brian: the controversial new immigration law in arizona has gotten people on both sides fired up with threats of lawsuits pending. nicole colins is standing by with some of the top stories. hello. >> hi, brian. protests at the state capitol in arizona yesterday turned violent. people were seen throwing water bottles and hitting police officers with sticks, resulting in a handful of arrests. the new state law makes at it crime to be in the country illegally and requires police to question people about their immigration status. two advocacy group are preparing fo formal challenges. former baseball league manager was aboard a flight that was diverted to albuquerque, new mexico, where a passenger was taken in custody.
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right now, there are tornado warnings in several parts of mississippi at the start of tornado season. funnel cloud touched down in texas yesterday. no injuries were reported. a 28-year-old miner has been killed in raleigh county, west virginia, late thursday night. he was crushed between a piece of heavy equipment and block of coal. those are the top stories right now. back to you, brian. >> brian: thank you very much, nicole. just to make sure we understand. the guy we show about the flight that was diverted to albuquerque, that was not the suspect. that was a guy that broke up the fight. a former baseball guy. navy seal, second navy seal has been found not guilty in connection with the alleged beating of a terror suspect. now all eyes are on the third seal. his name is matthew mccabe. malini wilkes is in studio and following the story. >> reporter: good afternoon. his attorney hopes the charges against matthew mccabe, the third navy seal will be dropped. this week at camp victory in iraq, petty officer second class jonathan keefe and petty officer first class
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julio huertas were found not guilty of failing to protect a prison. matthew mccabe's style will start may 3 in norfolk, virginia. he is the only one of the seals accused of assaulting the terrorist ahmed hashim abed after his arrest last september. mccabe's attorney thinks the previous acquittalals shows the case against his client is weak. >> i have been practicing military law for 26 years and when there are codefendants in a case, often if the case is tried once or twice with negative results for the government, they often choose to drop the charges against the additional member. just to save judicial resources and government money. >> reporter: the suspect ahmed hashim abed is accused of masterminding a 2004 attack on american contractors in fallujah. in one of the most horrifying images of the war, americans' bodies were burned and hung from a bridge. abed claims he was beaten in custody. dropping the third case could present sticky p.r. situation for the u.s. military who are
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greatly concerned that iraqi view the process as fair. the case is controversial. critics say al-qaeda trains the terrorists to make false abuse claims that the u.s. is too sensitive about the claims after the abu ghraib prison scandal and the servicemen shouldn't have to second guess themselveses in combat because they fear possible legal consequences. brian, back to you. >> brian: malini wilkes, thank you very much. indiana congressman dan burton has been an advocate for the navy seals since the beginning of the drama and joins me now with more on that. xhoong, your thought that two -- congressman, your thought that two of the three have pretty much been cleared? >> i'm happy about that. they should haven't been tried in the first place. they risked their lives to capture the terrorist and for them to be court-martialed and accused of what they've been accused of bothers me. in addition it sends a terrible message to the men and women in the field in afghanistan and iraq, who are risking their lives every day. do they have to use kid gloves when they go after the terrorists who have done
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horrible things? i don't think so. >> brian: do you believe the charges should be dropped against the third individual, matthew mccabe? >> i certainly do. in fact, i told the chairman of the joints chief of staff when he was before our committee i couldn't understand why they were tried in the first place. i thought they should have dropped all the charges. and in my opinion, after risking their lives they probably deserve metdals instead of tried in a court-martial. >> brian: it seems in some of the reporting revealed there is a great concern in nil ta military how -- in the military how it might be viewed in iraq. they are concerned about iraqi eaction more than the evidence in the case, which looks rather weak. >> well, that's just wrong. it shouldn't be that way. you know, our military men and women are fighting to help those people over there, but they're also fighting to protect america against terrorism and terrorist attacks. not only here but around the world. they need to know we're behind them 100%. when the military starts going after somebody because
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they are accused by an al-qaeda terrorist of hitting them in a mouth and giving them a split lip, it makes no sense. the al-qaeda manual says very clearly if you are captured, say you were tortured or mistreated and that will resonate with the american people, especially the left. we should be supporting these military personnel that are risking their lives and we certainly shouldn't be court-martialing them for something like this, accusation made by al-qaeda terrorist who hung americans from a bridge. >> brian: let me lob another one at you that has nothing to do with this particular story. what do you think about what is going on in arizona right you now? >> talking about the -- >> brian: the new immigration law, right. >> congressman pole and i have been on the floor speaking about this. those people are at risk. the farmers, ranchers, the people that live there, they have the drug dealers and the terrorists coming across there all the time.
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when i say "terrorists," the drug dealers are terrorists, they're terrorizing the whole area. in the united states, instead of the federal government and administration working hard to protect the border, 1,980 miles long, they're doing very little. we need to do -- i think the arizona government ought to do whatever is necessary to protect their people. >> brian: all right. dan burton, good to have you here on america's news headquarters. thanks for joining us. >> good seeing you, brian. >> brian: oregon jury awarded $18.5 million in punitive damages to a man molested by his boy scouts of america assistant scout master in the 1980s. carey lewis, now 38 years old said he turned to drugs and it has had life-long issues because of the abuse. the boy scouts of america has five more sex abuse lawsuits to defend against. that is just in this same oregon court. the scouts have said they plan to appeal yesterday's decision. in a tough economy, state parks can be an inexpensive get-away. but the tough economy has
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some states either closing parks or doubling the fees to get in. fox's laura ingle live from riverbank state park in upper manhattan with the story. hello, laura. >> reporter: hi, brian. closing the state parks and cutting down services has not been an easy decision for state lawmakers to make, not only here in new york, but all across the nation. many of the state lawmakers say this is a budget of necessity, not of choice. which means that state parks like this one here are going to be seeing some big changes soon. possibly. let's look what we're talking about here. here at the case of riverbank state park, they have a great track as you can see, basketball courts, swimming pool, ice skating rink. what it's going to mean for this park is reduced hours. the swimming pool will close and it will mean the end of senior citizen programs. there are 41 state parks in new york in danger of closing with the severe budget shortfall. in california, we are talking about 220 state parks that could be padlocked and closed.
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55 in arizona. and the list just goes on and on. park advocates say cutting public services is not the way to go and it harms economy of neighboring communities and will deprive residents of low-cost recreation. >> the idea of saving money by closing parks that have received land order conservation funds is really generally speaking a bad idea, because the cure could be worse than the disease. >> reporter: and there is a bit of a sticky situation with all of these proposed park closures. if a state park that received federal funds under the land and water conservation act closes, it puts itself in jeopardy of forfeiting all future federal grant money. in new york's case, state lawmakers are trying to only close state parks that are draining the budget. >> we tried to make the teacher cuts and in particular, you know, we have some parks that raise revenue, and so we're not
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proposing closing those parks. but other parks do cost state money. they're publicly subsidized and in some of the cases we have put them on the closure list. >> reporter: and again, in the state of new york, right now there is a $9.2 billion deficit. if all of the parks on the list that are being talked about to close, it will mean cutting $6.4 million off of that number. so the park advocates say it's not really a lot, but the state people say actually, we need to make that cut. so it's still up for debate as it is in many other states across the nation. brian? >> brian: laura ingle, thank you very much. severe weather is in store for much of the country. we'll have the latest on the tornado watches and warnings. and it's your money. we tell you about some big spenders here in washington. >> i'm james rosen, at a chic and exclusive hotel bar inside the beltway, where in between cocktails i run a high risk of running in d.n.c. or r.n.c. fundraisers. when we come back, i'll
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>> brian: get more trouble for toyota, the largest auto maker is recalling unreported number of vehicles sold in brazil over the past two years. brazilian consumer protection officials complain that the
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flormats pose a safety threat blocking accelerator pedals. toyota says it's going along with brazil's decision and denies they've done anything wrong. more than 8.5 million toyota vehicles recalled worldwide because of safety problems. new fundraising reports show democrats outraise republicans in march. the three democratic campaign committees, d.n.c., d.s.c.c., and the dccc raised $29 million in the month. major republican committees raised $24 million in this key mid-term election year. one thing is for sure, democrats and republicans both are still putting the party in political party. correspondent james rosen hit the town to show us where a lot of the big donor contributions are going! >> reporter: plush hotel, corporate jet, elaborate floral arrangeles, not the things you associate with winning elections but the forms show the democratic and
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republican national committees sending lop-sided funds on staff needs and lavish lusry items. dnc spent $60 million or 60% of the total revenue on administrative and fundraising costs and the rnc posted higher totals. >> these are tips, these are gym memberships. we see a variety of things on there that, not a normal person might consider to be a core party expense. >> leprechaun says, "not without a spoon!" [ laughter ] one thing the parties say, if you wine and dine donors you can't throw a burger down your throat. you have to do it in a style they're accustomed to. >> have a seat! >> reporter: so it drives up cost when a dnc fundraiser featuring the president is held at a prestige venue like boston opera house, setting where protective donors feel in their element and ready donate. the party spent $176,000 on
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catering at the washington hilton over 14 months. the rnc doubled that in just three days. spending $340,000 on a recent gathering in hawaii. >> there are often times criticizing the other for how lavishly they spend money in congress. or in government. at the end of the day, both parties are spending tens of millions of dollars. even hundreds of millions of dollars to run the party's operations. >> reporter: by contrast, typical non-profit spends no more than 25% of the total revenue on administrative and fundraising costs. picking up the tab at the right places, james rosen, fox news. >> brian: you know i used to share an office with james and never once did he offer to pick up my tab. he has half of every dollar he ever made. now we have news to tell you. tornado warnings in the deep south and new warning we need to share with you. domenica davis is at the extreme weather center with details. hello. >> brian, yeah, the tornado warnings are starting to pile up to the south.
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namely through mississippi and alabama. but also, damage reports now are starting to pile up. we have a couple of dangerous cells that are moving off to the east at a pretty good clip. where we have the web, the latest tornado warnings that push up to the north. it's the ones that are sitting in the alabama area, mississippi, that border that, where we're looking at particularly dangerous cells right now that are rolling off to the east. we do already have four confirmed reports that there were tornadoes in the alabama area. so we're going to continue to watch this situation as the cells plow off to the east. and it's not just this morning that we are going to be looking at and the early afternoon that we are going to look at the threat for severe weather. it will last throughout the afternoon. you can see the watch boxes are getting taller there. so, the threat continues into this evening. >> brian: domenica davis, thank you very much. your tax dollars wasted on porn. what were some government accountants doing while the
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economy was going south? we'll have that story in a moment. stay with us. 
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>> brian: as the economy was collapsing, some those who were supposed to be watching were watching porn. they found 33 s.e.c. staffers used government computers to download porn. now some question the timing of the investigation. liz trotta has her thoughts on the story. this is an eye-opener, isn't it? >> it is. the internet is ablaze with the story. not to mention, of course, the newspapers. the internet is having the most fun. blogs are alive. everyone is guessing to who is leaking this stuff. you have a lot of leaks in washington. don't you? >> brian: it keeps us busy. yes. >> anyhow, let me give you a sample of one of the blogs. this is something called "the atlantic." part of what he has written is this isn't certainly the publicity the s.e.c. needs as it begins to prosecute the high-profile case against goldman sachs. though it does begin to
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explain why it took the s.e.c. more tlan th tlan three . >> every play on words you can imagine -- i won't repeat them, have been used to push the story. a lot of time is spent to say who is doing the leaking and for what c cause? the origin of the story is cloudy. we keep reading that this was a memo that the s.e.c. provided to senator grassly of iowa. republican. because in answer to a request. it is a summary. you've probably seen it, too, brian. it's a summary of five years of these nefarious activities. are there any reporters covering the s.e.c. anymore? hor has everybody been fired because of the economy? >> brian: yeah.
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>> it seems that this kind of thing could have been discovered a long time ago. >> brian: you are on a good point there, liz. very good point. >> you know more about how they cover the beats down there. is there such a thing is there an s.e.c. beat anymore? >> brian: the problem is the financial newspapers that watched after these things have cut back on the staffs. i think there is a lot of things going uncovered, not only in washington, but around the country. >> yeah. >> brian: the news departments and local news around the country are slashed because of problems with the finances. >> so this is an f-minus as far as i'm concerned for the media. and whether anybody has leaked it or not is from my intent and purposes is just a sideshow. the fact is that this is a story that should have been covered a long time ago. one can only imagine how many agencies are getting away with this when we have such a terrible financial situation. >> brian: liz trotta, got to
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leave it there. good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> brian: he is no lassie but after you hear of his heroics you may be reminded of hollywood's favorite dog. it's incredible story and the video is amazing. stay with us.
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with help from the scooter store, medicare and my insurance covered it all. call the scooter store for free information today. call the number on your screen for free information. >> and here is a great story before we go, about a popular hero by the name of buddy. buddy is a german shepherd,
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awarded an engraved silver plated dog bowl for leading alaska state troopers to a fire on his owner's property near willow. troopers say buddy and owner were in the family workshop april 4th when a heater set chemicals on fire. >> as i run into the house i told buddy, we need to find help and he went and found help. led the state trooper to our house. >> i mean, literally got the state trooper and to follow him to the house. the workshop was destroyed and only the window trim on the house was damaged. that's all for me here in washington. as you know, america's news headquarter rolls on, rick folbaum and jamie colby standing by in new york to take over and the latest news and up-to-date what's happening on those tornados down in the south. remember to check in for fox news sunday. check your local times and listings, i'm brian wilson, thank you for watching
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america's news headquarters, you're watching the fox news channel where you get to report -- or we get to report and you get to decide. i should have known that by now. now. back, back soon. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> hello, welcome to a brand new hour of america's news headquarters. >> i'm jamie colby, there's a new law sposhging outrage across the country. arizona's governor signing what many are calling the strictest immigration bill ever while some are in favor of this, there are many others that aren't. we'll take a look at both sides. >> also, an eye on the sky and parts of the deep south today, severe weather could be rolling through your neighborhood later today, we'll let now who is at risk of seeing some dark, dangerous skies out there. >> and if you've missed this, you've got to see it this time, buddy the german shepherd coming to the rescue. how his actions saved a life.
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>> first, loud protests in arizona, immigration advocates converging on the state capital in phoenix, promising to fight the nation's toughest legislation against illegal immigration, a day after the governor there signed it into law. it makes it a crime to be in the state illegally and allows police to ask people about their immigration status if there's reason, reason to suspect that they're there illegally. casey stegall is live in phoenix, good to see you, so how will the new law work, exactly? >> well, rick, that's what's so confusing about all of this. just as you were saying, it essentially allows police officers to inquire about a person's immigration status as they're conducting regular police work, so, in theory, if a group of day laborers are standing outside of a home depot or other home improvement store, an officer can go up and ask to see their immigration papers, if not, if they didn't produce them, then they can be deported and that's so long as those
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officers have probable cause that the people are in the state of arizona illegally and that is the big bone of contention here, what constitute probable cause, that's yet to be determined. the governor says that all police officers, all law enforcement officials in the state will be trained before this law goes into effect to make sure it's enforced properly, rick. >> now, the governor signed this in spite of the fact there are a lot of people concerned that it could violate people's civil rights. president obama for one said that there may be some legal problems with this law. why did governor brewer go ahead and sign it if there are all of these questions about it? >> well, because she says that the problem of illegal immigration is spiraling out of control in arizona, consider this, the arizona-mexico border is among the busiest of the southern states that share a border with mexico when it comes to drug smuggling and human smuggling, a lot of activity along that border and governor brewer says it's simply time to
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put an end to this because it's jeopardizing the safety of law abiding citizens here in the state of arizona and especially when you consider there are some estimates out there, rick, that there are nearly half a million illegal immigrants currently calling the state of arizona home. >> i mentioned it at the top, casey, that there are immigration advocates who are out there protesting today. opponents to this new law, what are they saying and how many of them are out there? >> well, it sparked a lot of outrage, there are a handful of protesters that are here on the capitol lawn behind me, but yesterday was a very different story, filled with hundreds and hundreds of protesters, a couple of fights even broke out, but we understand there were no praj incidents to report. of course, they're saying that this promotes racial profiling and they just don't understand why the governor would sign something leak this and as you said, rick, even president obama chimed in, listen to what he had to say. >> i've instructed members of my administration to closely
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monitor the situation and examine the civil rights and other implications of this legislation, but if we continue to fail to act at a federal level, we will continue to see misguided efforts opening up around the country. >> reporter: now, this law goes into effect 90 days after the legislative session ends here in arizona which could be sometime in july or august before this is enforced, but already, there are legal battles brewing and you know, if a bunch of lawsuits are filed, it could keep this from going into effect some 90 days after the session ends. we're going to have to wait and see how this plays out in court, rick. >> casey stegall streaming live from us from phoenix, thank you very much. >> meanwhile, excuse me, senate democrats are looking to clear a key hurdle in financial reform. majority leader harry reid is scheduling is vote on the measure for monday, but needs at least one g.o.p. vote before despite on the new regulations can begin and he's facing fierce opposition from many republicans, they say the
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current proposal could eventually lead to more bailouts for companies that are deemed too big to fail. julie kirtz is live in washington for us on the story. julie, good to see you. tell us exactly what you think will happen on monday with the bill and what is the president saying about it? >> well, reid has set a vote, a vote for monday evening five o'clock in washington on the hill and the time line could slip if the negotiations with republicans are getting somewhere so that could happen. today, president obama followed up his scold at wall street from new york city by saying, again, that he believes the reforms, which will be the biggest change to market oversight since the great depression will hold wall street accountable. here is the president today. >> these reforms will put an end, once and for all, to taxpayer bailouts. they would bring greater transparency to complex financial dealings allege power ordinary consumers and shareholders in our financial system. >> also, jamie, today, the
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president in that radio internet address linked the auto industry to the financial overhaul saying the new rules would prevent a repeat of the crisis that led for tough times in the car countries in this country. putting the pressure on. >> let me ask you if the president needs one senate democrat to vote yes. how likely is that and what are they doing this weekend? are the republicans standing firm? >> well, republican leaders, aides say, continue to have commitments from all 41 senate republicans to vote no on a debate to move on the bill. that is unless there is a bipartisan agreement on the wall street measure and negotiations and talks continue back and forth this weekend. so, and that isn't to say that eventually some republicans might back obama's bill. republican susan collins is one of those that is considered a possible supporter of the bill and we're waiting to hear what she has to say. today in the g.o.p. address, kay bailey hutchinson pushed the address of a compromise, but says the bill has serious flaws.
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here is the senator. >> it's time for democrats to put away the political play book and simply say publicly what they're suggesting privately. that this bill still needs some work. that both parties should come together to do that work on behalf of the american people. >> so, she says negotiations continue, but she said from the republican perspective, democratic leaders are using what they used for the republican view of the legislation. >> julie, thanks for the latest, rick? >> if monday's test vote fails, what does it mean for the economy in general. with so many bad blood these days, is it possible for politicians to agree on anything. susan estridge is a contributor and chip salsman, the former manager for mike huckabee. good to see you both, thanks for coming in on a saturday.
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chip, it seems like maybe harry reid is trying to force the republicans to vote against this thing, to try to make them look bad. is that what's going on here? >> yeah, sure looks like he'd rather have the headline than good, than good legislation that would help fix financial regulation. look, the taint of the health care fill, smash mouth politics is still there and the republicans are a little worried. they're not trusting of the democrats in the senate, but hope they'll come together and focus on a few things at that really matter in this bill. right now, it seems to be more focused on big wall street type places, we want to focus on main street. we want to talk about commercial lending, mortgage, mortgage underwriting and some of the things that affect everyday folks because right now, the banks aren't lending and people aren't getting the lines of credit and can't get the small businesses going and that's hurting this economy. >> susan, you'd think that perhaps after the criticism that the democrats rammed the health care reform bill down everybody's throats, that they may be a little sensitive to that kind of criticism again
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this time around, but apparently, no. >> well, i think he's in real danger here for republicans, you guys are talking about the danger for democrats, but democrats are on the side of regulating wall street. that's a pretty popular position outside of a few board rooms on wall street and the danger for republicans right now is, you know, it's one thing to just say no on health care, when at least a lot of people in this country, the majority have health insurance, and worry that the bill could hurt them. it's quite another when we're talking about regulating wall street and putting limits on wall street and the republicans run a very grave risk, i think, of looking very much like the party of wall street. >> let me ask chip about that because i think it's a good question and it has to do with the perception of image, the way people look at the different parties, and susan, i'll have the question for you about this in a moment, but chip, is it a problem while there are still so many americans out there who are struggling through the back end
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of this recession, while so many of these big financial companies are starting to make a lot of money again, is there a problem if the republican party gives the appearance of not being willing to in some way regulate that financial services industry? >> i think they want to regulate it, but it also is about appearance when president obama takes a million dollars from goldman sacks, senator dodd who is writing this billion, millions from wout. when you read the bill, it's easy on wall street and big loopholes in the too big to fail category and would allow more taxpayer bailouts and i don't think anybody wants that besides a few democrats wanting that past december, like chris dodd. wall street goes hand in anded, one can't go without the other and we need a bill that works for the american people and not the folks in congress. >> here is the flip side of that argument and pertains to main street, to folks out there who
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are very upset at sort of the way that this administration and a lot of democrats have been in favor of more beg government and more power grabbing so if this legislation is sort of pushed through the same way health care was, and it seemed to build on government, is that a problem for democrats? >> well, depends what you mean by big government. people use that term with all due respect broadly. more taxes, that's not what this bill is about. it's quite another, i think, if you're saying, look, we want to regulate the kind of reckless risk taking that toolly resulted in you know, these companies threatening us with their own failure. huge mortgage foreclosures, you know, folks getting loans who shouldn't have and then being foreclosed on. so, you know, both sides have taken money from wall street. everybody takes money from wall street. the bottom line though is, you know, are you bought, are you
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purchased? i mean, i think the danger from republicans is they've taken a lot of money from wall street, so have democrats, but whos' gotten their money's worth? i've taken no money from wall street, just for the record, while we're all here today. thank you so much. >> have a great weekend. >> you too, enjoy the rest of it, take care. >> good to be with you. >> well, dangerous weather is very possible over portions of south. there's a high risk for severe weather issued by the storm prediction center and they only do that a handful of times every year, mostly large damaging tornados, those are very likely, too, and there's also a severe storm that rolled through lancaster county, nebraska last night. take a look at this, heavy rains, high winds and pea-sized hail drenched the area. and emergency management officials are happy to say there are no news of damage. doe men cal davis is in the weather center, more to tell us. >> a lot going on right now, we
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have a very serious situation, especially in the mississippi area, you can see all the tornado warnings that we have, but it's this one just to the north of jackson that is becoming the particularly dangerous situation, in yazoo city. already reports of 30 homes that have been damaged with the tornado as it continues to plow off to the northeast, it's moving relatively 15 miles per hour, so it's a fast moving tornado, but it's a very serious situation, a tornado emergency for yazoo city and certainly looking for more to come with the severe weather setup we are going to be watching. there is that cell that moves off to the northeast. behind it we have more convex firing up. here is a look at the wider picture and you can see the watch boxes we're going to be looking at. these will keep growing through the day and you're seeing they're starting to move up to the north.
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and the watch boxes, not only looking to the deep south and threat for severe weather and even up through the mississippi valley, the tennessee valley you're going to start to see that severe weather creep into your area by this afternoon and even into this evening. we'll continue to check it out through the rest of the afternoon and keep monitoring the situation, yazoo city seems to be the worse for mississippi. >> domenica davis in the extreme weather center, thanks. >> thanks. >> the coast guard suspending its search for 11 oil rig workers, the men missing now for four days since a massive explosion tore through their rig off the coast of louisiana. the coast guard says it will resume the search if any ships in the area see anything, but the odds of any of the missing workers still being found alive at this point is very slim, we're told. the cause of that blast on tuesday, off the louisiana coast is still unknown. >> a flight from los angeles was divert today new mexico after passengers say a man threatened to blow up the plane and tried
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to open the plane's door. all of this happened on a delta airlines flight found for florida. tampa bay rays broadcaster, kevin kennedy among a group of eight subduing the man, stanley sheffield. a complaint saying he sprayed the first class cabin with a water bottle before going for the cabin door and at one point telling the flight attendant get behind me, satan. the fbi says it does not believe the incident was related to terrorism. >> a second navy seal cleared of wrongdoing, jonathan keefe accused of failing to protect an iraqi prisoner and now a third seal is ready to go on trial. malini, tell us about the acquittal of the second seal. >> hi, rake. pay officer john keefe was found not guilty, and court martial at camp victory in iraq, among three seals that were charged. the man claims he was beaten and
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in custody and accused of master minding a 2004 contract attack on contractors in fallujah, their bodies were burned and hung from a bridge, rick. >> the third seal, the trial is set to get underway. what can you tell us about that. >> matthew mccabe, he goes on trial next month in virginia. given the two acquitals his attorneys hope the charges could be dropped, but could present a pr problem for the u.s. military. they've been concerned that iraqis see this process as fair. mccabe's attorney says that shouldn't play into the situation, here is his take. >> the justice system is designed to maintain good order and discipline in the military and that's the commander's tool to do that. on awareness, even of public, public reaction in another country should never enter into a commander's mind as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: mccabe is the only one charged with assaulting the suspect. the others were accused of
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failing to protect the prisoner, rick. >> it's not only their attorney, but also a lot of people around the country who don't think these servicemen should have faced court martial. tell us about the krit search in this case. >> right, well, there are many who criticized this and thinks the u.s. is too sensitive about rights after the abu ghraib prison scandal. here is what he had to say. >> sends a terrible message to our men and women in the field in afghanistan and iraq who are risking their lives every day. i mean, do they have to use kid gloves when they go after the terrorists who have done the horrible things? >> some critics say that they train al-qaeda terrorists to make false abuse claims. >> and neil pucket, you can find out what his client is thinking and the defense that he's preparing for him coming up a little bit later on. >> in a tough economy, state parks can be a really nice and inexpensive get away.
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>> well, a lot of families are turning to cash, you know, their cash strapped right now. it's tough for everybody, right, so they go to state parks for a source for inexpensive family fun. nothing wrong with that. the problem is though many states are facing budget issues, and some are jacking up their prices to get into the beautiful parks or shutting them down altogether. laura ingle is live at one that's open, river bank state park in upper manhattan on a beautiful day, laura, are people there appreciating what they have while they have it and are they concerned some day they might not? >> reporter: absolutely, jamie, in fact when they came into river bank state park today, there was a gentleman outside wearing a t-shert saying save this park. people are very aware of it in this neighborhood in upper and mant and not everybody can afford to jet off to far away places for their springtime and summer fun which is why these state parks are so critical for so many people in our nation. and some lawmakers say, look,
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they just simply don't have a choice and are making cuts where they have to. we'll give you a live look and show awe gorgeous running track at river bank state park of the the park's department is looking at reducing hours of operation for not only that track, but for everything here. they're talking about closing the swimming pool and eliminating senior citizen services so they can save money. and 41 state park, in danger of being padlocked and closed in new york and some place ins connecticut, doubled the price of camping in parks and the public outcry was so loud they reversed the likes to 30%. and california, dpor ga making cuts and in lawmakers say they don't just have a choice. >> we're facing a historic crisis and over 9 billion dollars we have to close in a budget gap and no area of state spending cannot face
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reconductions. we have to make reductions everywhere. our budget proposes making cuts to schools, to health care institutions and state parks is another part of state spending. >> reporter: there are approximately 2000 state parks all across the country. gates will go down at the entrances of countless hiking trails, beaches and bike paths if the state parks on the list of proposed closures happens. there's an important law we want to know. if a state park receives federal fund under the land and water conservation act closes it puts itself in jeopardy of giving up all future federal grant money. >> it's pretty outrageous. i was trying to research for actually weeks, trying to find out historically, i mean, even during the depression, it's interesting. i think during the depression the exact opposite happened, we actually opened up, and tried more services because they were so needed. so, this is actually, it's
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bizarre. >> and those park advocates say that there is a solution to this problem making allstate parks self-sustainable and following a profit-driven model. so a lot of people like the people around this park are waiting to find out what happens when the state budget is all wrapped up and we'll keep you informed. jamie, back. >> jamie: i'm sure it works out. take care. >> reporter: all right. >> rick: switching gears, three games of war games in iran after the rogue nation's supreme leader says the u.s. poses an atommic threat. the u.n. asking for more sanctions and it may be too late. why some are saying the time to stop iran's nuclear program may have already run out. we'll be right back. it's mday,
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>> bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. immigration advocates vowing to fight a new arizona law targeting illegal immigration. it tells police officers to ask people about their immigration status if there's any reason to suspect they're in the u.s. illegally. the new law goes into effect this summer. >> rick: also, this saturday, gunman ambushing two police vehicles at a busy intersection, a border city plagued by drug violence killing seven officers and a 17-year-old boy passing by and the officer had stopped to talk to a street vendor who flagged them down. >> jamie: and choppy seas, strong winds and rain halting
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cleanup of an oil rig off the louisiana coast. efforts to contain the spill will resume once the weather clears, 11 workers remain missing and are presumed dead. >> rick: the securities and exchange commission are pushing back against r revelation senior staffers surfed porn sites before the collapse and calling the story old news and new reforms are in place. the sec inspector general spoke with neil cavuto. more on what he found out and what did the sec investigation show. >> reporter: well, the internal investigation shows 31 sec staffers, including one woman may have spent more time watching porn than policing the nation's financial system, all on government issued computers and at the cost of taxpayers. 17 of the employees were senior level pulling in six figure salaries, most of this happened in the last two and a half years when the economy was on the
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brink of collapse, one top attorney spent up to eight hours a day looking at pornography and another employee was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from sexually explicit sites. sec inspector general david cox prepared the report and here he is speaking to neil cavuto. >> i certainly wouldn't say it's throughout the commission. the concern we had was not so much with the number which was only 31, 33 individuals, but with the severity of those instances and the egregiousness of those instances. >> reporter: now, one employee was able to bypass the filter by using google imams, rick. >> rick: the 33 individuals that we just heard mentioned there, what did the sec do? what kind of action was taken against them? >> a sec spokesperson tells fox, each of the offending employees are disciplined or have been disciplined and the spokesman
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says since it came to light the sec further increased penalties saying the behavior would not be tolerated, rick. >> rick: nicole collins live for us in washington, thanks so much. >> you bet. >> jamie: the obama administration is also working to derail the possibility of iran acquiring nuclear weapons, the white house helping the u.n. will pass new economic sanctions against iran in the next few weeks, but will that be enough to stop iran or just harden its resolve to go forward with its nuclear program? joining us now international security expert, jim walsh. thanks for joining us today. >> good to be with you, jamie. >> we've seen a couple of sanctions and nothing has happened with iran and they continue to build the program and the question is what incentive could there be, what would we have to put in place for iran to stop or at least slow down the potential production of a nuclear weapon? >> well, it's a great question, jamie and i think part of it is there are things we can try to do, but this is driven mostly by what is happening in tehran. you'll remember, of course,
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there was the meltdown after the disputed election, there is the fight in iran about what direction it's going to take and the people there are trying to hold on to power and so they're very focused on their own business right now and sort of shutting out the outside world and like what happens in the u.s. sometimes or other countries, foreign policy issues are really domestic policy issues and it's about fights within groups in iran and we may increase incentives or pressure, but until the iranian government sort of settles out its own problems, i think it may be difficult to make progress. >> i've heard it said and we actually have at the bottom of the green we're in a race against time with iran. can you put it in perspective for us and tell us how much time? >> well, we've had several intelligence estimates and they send to range in saying that iran could have the capability, not that they would have an actual weapon sitening a shed somewhere, but would have the capability to produce highly enriched uranium, between 2011
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and 2015 and somewhere in there and the question, when do they make a decision to take that capability and translate it into an actual weapon. most people think and i'm one of these, that iran wants to come close to that edge, but not cross that line. the question is whether the election and the other changes within the government of iran have changed that calculus, at this point we don't know. but right now, they are steadily, slowly, but steadily moving up to a line of capability and have not produced bomb material and do not yet have a bomb. >> plenty of centrifuges and the ability to enrich uranium higher and higher levels. the question i have for you, what should be the end game then. do you think it's realistic to even set a goal of stopping them from having the capability of producing a nuclear weapon or should we just try to slow down the process as we had gotten iran to agree at one point to ship out the nuclear fuel to enrich elsewhere and bring it back in, which would have slowed down the process? >> that's right, jamie, that's
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the tehran researcher reactor deal that iran agreed to on october 1st and when the deal went back to tehran, it fell apart because ahmadnejad faced political criticism from people on the left and people on the right, but you're right to mention that. you know, we can wag our finger at them and threaten them, but at the end of the day, the only way out of this mess is if they agree to steps that allow them to have some nuclear program, but set up fire brakes so that doesn't become a program that leads to a nuclear weapon. that means we have to have some sort of negotiated settlement in which all parties get something out of it. we get confidence about their program and it's not being misused, but they get to have some sort of program, but until we reach that, it's going to be very hard to influence them, especially when they have problems at home. >> and to monitor it as well. we know the iaea is on the ground from time to time, but boy, to find out about a secret plant we don't know about. thanks for keeping an eye on it for us, jim, always great talking to you. great talking to you, jamie,
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take care. >> rick: this next story is about adapting. a company that used to make auto parts and with down shifting in the economy and auto companies, that company is making medical supplies. joining us with more, hi, elizabeth. >> how is it going, rick? that's right, turner medical used to be turner machine, since 1970 the company would make auto parts, but as those jobs became increasingly available overseas, the company knew it had to reinvent itself. take a look. it looks like your average factory, workers busy drilling, measuring, and former auto shop it now making auto parts. >> before we got into medical, our product was tools for the automotive industry and now our product is surgical instruments and implants for the body. >> charlie tucker remembers when turner made parts of carburetors
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and fenders and the auto sfri started importing more from other countries, causing turner to cut, layoff staffs or close for goods. >> we had to make a change. >> change found then. a medical company asked turner to make a surgical tool and decided to take a chance. >> so we started out with some simple surgical instruments and mod to the more complicated instruments. >> today they make implants used to repair injured spines and broken bones and many in alabama realize that turner makes high-tech medical devices like these, but the transition from auto parts to medical parts kept the company from failure and good paying jobs in the area. >> we take pride in what we build, it may be used on one of us. >> reporter: turner medical named alabama's small manufacturerer of the year and the company continues to grow one body part at a time. >> the 30 jobs that we should add this year should add about
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2 1/2 million dollars into the economy, it's going to put a lot of kids through college and help buy people a lot of houses. >> reporter: in addition to those 30 jobs they plan on adding by the end of this year, they also have plans to expand their workplace. all in order to meet demand for their medical supplies. rick. >> rick: great story, elizabeth in atlanta. thanks so much. >> jamie: from auto parts to autos. okay. suzuki is no longer known for motor bikes, but for cars. usually on the cheap and tiny side until now as foxnews.com automotive editor gary gastelu find out. check it out. >> suzuki is best known in the united states as one of the top producers of motorcycle, some cheap cars and the kind of trucks and s.u.v. that appeal to the kind of people who ride motorcycles now there's this, this is the suzuki kizashi, excuse me, kizashi.
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may have the look of a volkswagen jetta that's been to the gym, but it's actually larger, closer in size to a vw facade and offering the same premium feel inside and out for thousands less than one of those. the only engine is 2.4 liter 4 cylinder, but pumps a healthy 185 horsepower through a standard six-speed manual or 180 through a continuously variable automatic and you can get an all wheel drive, not a common option in the class. the most unique thing may be the fact it's pretty much the only japanese car in america with an actual japanese name, a real word, too, means something to the effect of "a great thing is coming." which is pretty cool, but since the kizashi is already here i'm not sure what it's referring to. if it means that future suzuki cars are like this one, it's not a bad thing. it's balances between ride,
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handling and comfort and quick, and fun to drive p one of the rare cars so well executed it's tough to find anything blatantly wrong about it. and hard pressed to fient something better a starting price of less than $19,000. gary gastelu, fox news. >> jamie: sure enjoy driving it. if you want to learn more about the 2010 suzuki kizashi. go to fox car report.com. >> rick: you can't get that part. a brand new feature on monday, couple days from now, the fox news channel app will be available for the iphone. check it out instant access to fair and balanced news right in the palm of your hand and i've got my iphone right here and i'm looking forward to going to the app store on monday. >> jamie: in case we miss each other we'll match each other. >> rick: watch each other on our
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immigration laws in the country. the governor there signing a bill into law yesterday, the law now allows police to ask people about their immigration status if they're suspected of being in the country illegally. also, today, wind and rain putting the cleanup of a spill in gulf of mexico on hold. the rig exploded off the coast of louisiana. after a week of flights being canceled most of europe is now flying again on schedule. that huge cloud of volcanic ash exploded down from ice lan and as you know, shut down european air space for a long time. >> a second navy seal was found not guilty in connection with the alleged beating of a terror suspect. a case we have been following at fox and now on the third seal, matthew mccabe. the iraqi who said he was roughed up by the seals is not an ordinary suspect, accused of master minding the grisly murders of four american
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contractors in fallujah, if you recall, people in the streets celebrating as the contractors turned bodies were first dragged through the streets and then two of them hung from a bridge. and joining us now is neil pucket, the petty officer matthew mccabe, awaiting trial. thank you for being with us. >> you're welcome, good to be here. >> jamie: i'm most curious initially about your client's reaction, supportive of fell le seals and happy they're acquitted. how does he feel his case, first of all, i want to know from his point of view and yours, compared to the seals where they were not able to establish the case they needed to prosecute. >> well, it buoyed his hopes he, too, will be acquitted and sent me e-mails that said now he feels good that things are looking really good tore him to go as well as the other two. >> jamie: and they all three could have accepted a reprimand, but wanted to go to trial. they want today prove their case and your client, i believe, took a lie detector test as well that
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he passed. so what-- >> he did, he did and he did pass it. >> jamie: so what will you present if this case even goes to trial, isn't it possible that the navy judge could look at the case and the prosecution could say, this one will also be difficult to prove and drop the charles, if you do have to go to trial what do you think the strongest point will be for acquittal. >> the strongest points are the fact that no one can believe that the mass murdering insurgent who's now had two, two days in court, he's had, he's had his chance at justice twice and so, i think that perhaps that's all we owe him two days in court and he doesn't need a third and one thing to point out, on an american commander's primary responsibility is taking care of his troops because the troops are who help him accomplish the mission. now that it's obvious that the indicates was not believed first by a jury and then not believed by a judge, it means there's no case. it means they're innocent and
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so, i think it's time to take care of the troops and matthew mccabe and distress the charges and we would respectfully request that major general cleveland do that out of respect for the process. >> jamie: many americans support new that and are asking the judge to do what they feel is the right thing, but there's another issue, it's a little complicated, but i want to ask you your response to it and that's the fact that you mentioned the credibility or lack thereof of the terror suspect, the one who claimed that your client punched him. his charges different than the two acquitted, when were charged with failing to protect that prisoner and also the credibility of the overall case with your client. so the question is, the public policy of the lack of anyone really to testify to what happened that would bring this to a conviction, but then there's also a concern maybe about, by the iraqi people, that someone pay the price for what was done to an iraqi, even though he's a terrorist. how do you respond to that?
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'cause that's been brought up in the last couple of days. >> well, that's a good point, jamie and the point here is that the criminal justice system and military justice stem is supposed to take car of, quote, unquote, alleged victims. that's who we had here was this terrorist. i'll say it again, he's had two days in court now, two separate trials, a jury didn't believe him and a military judge didn't believe him, along with all the other evidence, the best prosecution team in the navy and the best evidence that could be brought to court. it's now time to respect the process. the process has spoken, the military justice system. the military justice stem says, had said there's no there there. it's time to stop now and not force yet a third seal to go through this because the terrorist does not rate a third day in court. >> jamie: and even the petty officer demarche tino, the one who claims he saw your client throw a punch at this terrorist,
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also his credibility questioned after those appearances with the other navy seals so the case does seem to be crumbling. what do you tell your client at this point and what do you tell the americans who are so much behind him asking the judge like you or to drop the case. what do you tell him that that's what the chances are that will happen. >> well, the military justice authority belongs to major general cleveland. it's solely up to him whether or not to go forward. i would say the appearance of the command and reputation of the command sort of depends on his view this have and we respectfully would request him to dismiss the charges. respect the process, respect what the process has told him about the strength of the case, and there is no case. the case was not believed in the system in which it exists and therefore, it will once again not be believed for matthew mccabe. please don't require matthew mccabe to go through this. i think the american people would applaud this decision.
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oil spill in the gulf of mexico on hold. the rig exploded earlier off the louisiana coast. arizona now has the toughest immigration laws in the country. the governor signing a controversial bill into law yesterday. it's already being challenged by advocacy groups. the law makes the failure it carry immigration documents a state crime and allows cops to ask people about their immigration status if they suspect they're in the country illegally. and after a week of flights being canceled, most of europe is now flying on schedule. remember that huge cloud of volcanic ash that floated down from iceland, shutting down european air space. >> and now one of our favorite stories of the weekend, a horror owe dog recognizance-- a hero dog recognized in alaska, and why the dog named buddy is running like that, a german shepherd, led state troopers to the scene of a fire. buddy's owner says that a fire broke out in his workshop and
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guess what, he told buddy we need help. go get help, buddy, just like that, just like in real life, like lassie in the movies. >> jamie: who could forget. >> rick: buddy ran and got help and led police right to the workshop. the workshop was destroyed, but thanks to buddy, the home suffered minor damages and the alaska state troopers presented awards to buddy an engraved silver plated dog bowl and a large chew toy as well. >> jamie: if he could read that plate i'm worried. what a great dog. thank you for being with us, i'm jamie colby. jamie colby. >> rick: i'm rick fulbaum. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. y. that's why there's new danonino. . >> jamie:. >> rick: unlike leading kids yogurts, danonino has twice the calcium of milk, ounce per ounce, with vitamin d. so it's power packed for healthy growth. and its rich creamy taste is... yummy!
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